Column: Colleges must address smothering student debt

5:18 PM,
Feb. 8, 2013

Written by

Dr. Richard Hilsabeck
For Post-Crescent Media

On Jan. 24, an article entitled, "Expensive education," was published in The Post-Crescent. The article suggested that college and university administrators were in many ways exploiting, or at least, misleading their students with regard to career and/or job prospects upon completion of all, or a portion of their education at their particular institution.

I agree. As a clinical instructor, I'm in direct contact with students who are about to complete their formal education. The wide majority are deeply in debt. They face years of loan repayment, which will follow them far into the ...